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As the daughter of a National Park Service park ranger, HEIDI (BIELENBERG) POLLMANN moved frequently during her childhood, affording her a variety of experiences including life in large cities and small towns and an early appreciation for the environment.

Heidi attended Burke High School in Omaha, Nebraska, where a job at a landscape nursery and position on the golf team peaked her interest in golf course design and ultimately led to her enrollment in K-State's landscape architecture program.

While at K-State, Heidi was a member of the Dean's Student Advisory Council, the Landscape Architecture Student Advisory Board, the KSU Foundation student board, and vice president for development for her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta. Perhaps the most formative college experience for Heidi was participating in the Santa Chiara Italian Studies program in Castiglion Fiorentino during her fourth year. Here, she developed a passion for walkable communities, public transit and good food.

Heidi interned with Gage Davis Associates, a multi-disciplinary firm in Scottsdale, Arizona, for two summers and, upon graduating, returned to Scottsdale to pursue her dream of designing golf courses. While with Asmundson and Company, Inc., Heidi was involved with an historic renovation of Haggin Oaks, an Alister Mackenzie designed course in Sacramento, and the design of The Home Course (selected as the assisting course for the 2010 US Amateur Championship) in DuPont, Washington.

Desiring to diversify her experience, in 2002 Heidi moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and joined Patti Banks Associates. During four years at PBA, Heidi worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from large highway projects and trail masterplans to regional transit studies.

Since 2007, Heidi has been a project manager at Confluence (formerly Brian Clark + Associates) where Heidi oversaw the renovation of the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivor's Park on the west edge of the Country Club Plaza and is currently managing the design and implementation of corridor aesthetics associated with MoDOT's kcICON project and the new Christopher S. Bond Bridge.

Heidi continues to be involved at K-State, serving on the Landscape Architecture Advisory Board and as a guest critic and mentor both at KSU and the joint KSU/KU interdisciplinary program at the Kansas City Design Center. She also remains active in Kappa Alpha Theta, having served as a college chapter advisor and president of the Greater Kansas City Alumnae Chapter.

Heidi has served on the executive board of the Prairie Gateway Chapter of ASLA and currently chairs the LINKS (Leadership, Ideas, Networking, Knowledge, Solutions) continuing education program and is a member of the Mark D. Moore Golf Tournament committee. In 2007 Heidi was selected to serve on the Kansas City Mayor's Citizens Light Rail Task Force.

In addition to her professional accomplishments, Heidi has completed four marathons and numerous half marathon and shorter distance races. Heidi is married to Mike, a 1999 K-State architecture graduate, and both enjoy travel, cooking and golf.